Tag: Wine tasting
Real Estate, Wine, and Zen
I have been calling this my “Body Bag House,” because that’s the only way I’m going to be carried out of it when I am very old and very gray. Clairol notwithstanding.
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Terminal Wine
But, as you can probably guess, after a weekend with the grandkids where I did not drink much, I looked forward to having this at home with my feet up and the TV going. Perfect.
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Typicity, Tasting, Hemingway, and Scrooge
When the wine does not have the characteristics that you have come to expect from that varietal then there truly is a Great Disturbance in the Force.
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Robert Parker, Wine, and Menopause
So why is it that the overwhelming majority of official wine tasters and critics are men? It’s not because they’re better at the sniffing or tasting. It’s because they have better memories. And because they don’t go through menopause.
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Wine Tasting at Harley-Davidson
The bikes were awesome although I admit to being a motorcycle coward.
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Paso Robles Wine Festival – Cypher Winery
When I slunk into work the next morning with two unyielding, risqué tattoos in full view, my coworkers at The Day Job™ asked, “Just exactly what were you doing in (insert air quotes here) Wine Country?!?”
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Paso Robles Wine Festival – Winemakers Seminar
Yes, growing grapes is similar to actual farming, but he noted that while regular crops required water in order to live and thrive, grapevines only required water to not die.
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From Chilean Petit Sirah to French Whisky – An Afternoon Tasting with Palm Bay
The transcendent moment came when I sampled their exquisite Auslese, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese, and Eiswein. Yes, I had them all. Don’t hate me because I’m Prüm.
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Hug Cellars Pinot & Syrah with Friends
No additives and no laboratory gymnastics to get the wines to fit a certain “profile,” just fermented grapes in a bottle. What more could you ask for.
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Tasting Notes: 2009 Gap’s Crown Chardonnay
I’m just not really a Chardonnay kind of gal. However, a good wine is a good wine and this is a good wine! Plus, it’s spring! Plus (insert any relevant excuse here to have an expensive wine on a weeknight)!
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Siduri Surprise!
Before I even had a chance to tell you about the wonderful Siduri and Novy tasting at the Aria with Adam Lee, I was hit with a shocker.
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New Feature: Daily Drinkers
My search has taken me to several go-to favorites including Costco, Trader Joe’s, Fresh and Easy, and even – shock! – Whole Foods. (Motto: Why Pay Less?)
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